
Mayan Ruins - Tikal Guatemala

by Juergen Weiss
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Mayan Ruins - Tikal Guatemala
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Juergen Weiss
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SOLD on 05/09/2011 as a Archival Print to a happy Buyer from Peabody, MA
SOLD on 03/27/2013 as a Greeting Card to a happy Buyer from Chesapeake, VA
SOLD on 06/21/2022 as a Luster Photo Paper to a happy Buyer from Stillwater, MN
The Mayan Ruins in Tikal (Guatemala) are probably the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
Tikal is the ruin of an ancient city, which was likely to have been called Yax Mutal, found in a rainforest in Guatemala. Ambrosio Tut, a gum-sapper, reported the ruins to La Gaceta, a Guatemalan newspaper, which named the site Tikal.
After the Berlin Academy of Sciences' magazine republished the report in 1853, archeologists and treasure hunters began visiting the forest. Today, tourism to the site may help protect the rainforest. It is one of the largest archaeological sites and urban centers of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
It is located in the archaeological region of the Peten Basin in what is now northern Guatemala. Situated in the department of El Peten, the site is part of Guatemala's Tikal National Park and in 1979 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. Though monumental architecture at the site dates back as far as the 4th century BC, Tikal reached its apogee during the Classic Period, c. 200 to 900 AD.
During this time, the city dominated much of the Maya region politically, economically, and militarily, while interacting with areas throughout Mesoamerica such as the great metropolis of Teotihuacan in the distant Valley of Mexico. There is evidence that Tikal was conquered by Teotihuacan in the 4th century AD.
Following the end of the Late Classic Period, no new major monuments were built at Tikal and there is evidence that elite palaces were burned. These events were coupled with a gradual population decline, culminating with the sites abandonment by the end of the 10th century.
Tikal is the best understood of any of the large lowland Maya cities, with a long dynastic ruler list, the discovery of the tombs of many of the rulers on this list and the investigation of their monuments, temples and palaces. (Resource Wikipedia).
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Juergen Weiss
Thank you to my Buyer from " Stillwater / MN " for the purchase of this " Mayan Ruins " - Image. So much appreciated ! I wish you have a great joy with this picture in your home ! Best wishes ...

Juergen Weiss
Thank you EVERYBODY for your lovely comments ! Also I want to say THANK'S to the buyer from Massachusetts ! All the Best and many greetings from Kitzbuehel, Austria ... Juergen

Randy Rosenberger
Always wanted to see this, Carol, and now you have made it possible through your photographic eye for art, and I really appreciate you sharing this with us!

Juergen Weiss
Thank you for commenting on my " Mayan Ruins " - Photograph, Patricia ! Best regards, Juergen

Julie Lueders
Wow, So grand and royal, I'd love to walk these stairs and dream of a far away time. Juergen wonderful image!!

Ray Petersen
Juergen, Great shoot. I was to Tikal and stared at the pyramids. It seems to me the tops of these are the gods enthoned. two summers ago I was in Monument Valley, Utah and it struck me that the butts there looked like these Mayan temples. I wonder if the ancestors of the Mayans on their migration from Siberia, settled in the US Southwest and, if so, are their Yucatan temples memories of a distance past? Beautiful photographs, its obvious you love what you're doing. Regards, Ray
Juergen Weiss replied:
Thank you so much for your nice comment, Ray ! I appreciate it ! All the Best and Happy New Year, Juergen